Tuomas Nikula

04.11.2011
Instutitue of Biomedicine, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Genetics, University of Turku, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University

Transcriptional profiling of organ-specific autoimmunity in human

Reviewers:

Docent Jukka Partanen, Finnish Red Cross Blood Service, Helsinki, Finland

Docent Petri Auvinen, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

Opponent:

PhD, Janet A. Warrington, Senior Vice President, Second Genome Inc. San Francisco, CA, USA

Custos:

Professor Riitta Lahesmaa, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University, Turku

Publications:

  1. Nikula T, West A, Katajamaa M, Lönnberg T, Sara R, Aittokallio T, Nevalainen OS, Lahesmaa R. A human ImmunoChip cDNA microarray provides a comprehensive tool to study immune responses. J Immunol Methods. 303(1-2):122-34.
  2. Nikula T, Mykkänen J, Simmell O, Lahesmaa R, Genome-wide comparison of two RNA stabilizing reagents for trnacriptional profiling of peripheral blood (Manuscript)
  3. Airas L, Nikula T, Huang YH, Lahesmaa R, Wiendl H. (2007) Postpartum-activation of multiple sclerosis is associated with down-regulation of tolerogenic HLA-G. J Neuroimmunol. 187(1-2):205-11
  4. Elo LL, Mykkänen J, Nikula T, Järvenpää H, Simell S, Aittokallio T, Hyöty H, Ilonen J, Veijola R, Simell T, Knip M, Simell O, Lahesmaa R. (2010) Early suppression of immune response pathways characterizes children with prediabetes in genome-wide gene expression profiling. J Autoimmun. 35(1):70-6.